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In a message dated 8/12/02 3:52:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
nedvare@... writes:


> Ned asks: Is this (the following) what the list is about?
>
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 23:48:48
> > Dnowens wrote:
> >> Recently I was asked by a friend to watch his two children.

Well Ned, you are probably right. It wasn't so much a question about
unschooling in general, but a question posed to those here who are more
experienced in this matter than I, about how this could affect my
unschooling. It amazes me how nasty people can get, you attack me for my dumb
little question from the suburbs, (actually we live in an older section of
town, bordering on ghettoish. Our street is quiet, and there is a nice
community center down the road. Our home is two stories, 6 rooms plus a
bathroom, hardly suburban life.) you attack others for questions about Hooked
on Phonics, and Powerglide. Why do I even bother replying to your post? How
will people learn about the things they want to learn about if they can't ask
a question? If people fear recrimination or attack, they won't ask
questions, if they don't ask questions, how will they unschool? I came here
to learn, to ask questions, to bounce my ideas off of people like Tia,
Sandra, Mary, Pam, Joyce, Brenda and everyone else. I guess, I have used up
my time here since my questions are too suburban. Bye to all.
Bye to the nastiness
~Nancy


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In a message dated 8/12/02 4:07:20 PM, Dnowens@... writes:

<< I came here
to learn, to ask questions, to bounce my ideas off of people like Tia,
Sandra, Mary, Pam, Joyce, Brenda and everyone else. I guess, I have used up
my time here since my questions are too suburban. Bye to all.
Bye to the nastiness
~Nancy >>

I hope Nancy's just going to take a break and not really leave the list.
I've enjoyed her posts, and she's actually unschooling! Ned just has a
graduated living-elsewhere son to brag about. Ned's forgotten that parents
often have young children.

Sandra, who had THREE young children when the unschooling started: five,
two, and one in the hopper, not to appear until November of that first year
of homeschooling. I DO know that concerns of how to handle babies and
toddlers while homeschooling are more immediate and real than the history of
schools in Connecticut.

Sandra

Tia Leschke

>How
>will people learn about the things they want to learn about if they can't ask
>a question? If people fear recrimination or attack, they won't ask
>questions, if they don't ask questions, how will they unschool? I came here
>to learn, to ask questions, to bounce my ideas off of people like Tia,
>Sandra, Mary, Pam, Joyce, Brenda and everyone else. I guess, I have used up
>my time here since my questions are too suburban. Bye to all.
>Bye to the nastiness

Please don't leave, Nancy. Ned needs to learn manners. It really isn't
that hard, Golden Rule and all that.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
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On Vancouver Island

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I came here
to learn, to ask questions, to bounce my ideas off of people like Tia,
Sandra, Mary, Pam, Joyce, Brenda and everyone else. I guess, I have used up
my time here since my questions are too suburban. Bye to all.
Bye to the nastiness
~Nancy


It is not fair to everyone here that people who have been here for a while,
contributing in positive ways to our discussions are leaving due to the
nastiness of one person. If everyone who cares deeply about this list leaves
because Ned can't keep his obnoxious barbs to himself, there will be
nothing.
No one to answer questions, no one to help people look at their life in an
unschooling context, no one who cares.
It's time for Ned to go.
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein